Ashen Gate Procession

Cinematic dark hybrid score; low taiko swells and gqom-inspired pulses carve a tense, breathing grid under a subby, sustained bass drone. Shakuhachi and pipa trade skeletal, haunted motifs in the midrange, while koto and guzheng scatter glassy arpeggios at the fringes of the stereo field. Slow, ritualistic build: start minimal, gradually thicken rhythm clusters and octave drones, then thin back to a hollow, lingering tail., drone, low